Love Obama? This Will ()()()() You Off (But You Need To Hear It)

Horhey · Sep 9, 2012

Love Obama? This Will (*)(*)(*)(*) You Off (But You Need To Hear It)

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Obama's primary constituency are financial institutions so his program will once again be in their service if he can buy the election again. He's not going to move against a system that made him President.

Huffington Post: John McCain and 22 Attorneys General Ask Supreme Court to Walk Back Citizens United -- Where's Barack Obama?

A recent Greenberg Quinlan Rosner poll found that 81% of voters agree that "there is too much big money spent on political campaigns and elections today and reasonable limits should be placed on campaign contributions and spending". As super PAC money from millionaires, billionaires and corporations dominates the 2012 election campaign and may determine the outcome, former Republican presidential candidate John McCain filed an unsolicited brief with the Supreme Court asking the Court to rethink its ruling in Citizens United that unlimited political contributions to "independent" committees by corporations (and as subsequently held by a Federal Appeals Court, wealthy individuals) do not lead to "corruption or the appearance of corruption." McCain was joined in his brief by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI).

At about the same time, Democratic and Republican attorneys general from 22 states and the District of Columbia filed a brief with the Supreme Court arguing that the history and present reality of political corruption in many states means that Citizens United should not apply to state campaign finance laws.

In the face of these Supreme Court appeals, Barack Obama has remained oddly silent.

The most telling statement from the Obama camp on the subject of super PACs was a blog from Obama campaign manager Jim Messina that Obama administration officials would be encouraging wealthy donors to make unlimited contributions to Obama-supporting super PAC Priorities USA because the Obama campaign could not "unilaterally disarm" in the face of Republican Super PAC money.

Obama missed a golden opportunity by not joining his former rival John McCain in his brief urging the Supreme Court to revisit its conclusion in Citizens United that unlimited contributions to so-called "independent committees" do not cause corruption or the appearance of corruption.

Taking American democracy back from the domination of monied special interests is the overarching issue of our time. Whatever other issue you care about -- climate change, taxes, the deficit, economic inequality, the military, the environment -- and whether you are on the left, center or right -- no solutions will be found to America's fundamental problems as long as our politicians are bought and paid for by wealthy special interests with a vested interest in protecting the status quo which enriches them.
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Bloomberg: JPMorgan Employees Join Goldman Sachs Among Top Obama Donors

President Barack Obama’s largest campaign donors last month included employees of Wells Fargo & Co., (WFC) JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS), according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission records.

The incumbent has raised twice as much as Republican front- runner Mitt Romney, who has brought in $75.6 million, including $12 million last month. Obama’s campaign bank account entering March was more than 11 times greater than Romney’s.
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The New York Times: Conservatives Sowed Idea of Health Care Mandate, Only to Spurn It Later

It can be difficult to remember now, given the ferocity with which many Republicans assail it as an attack on freedom, but the provision in President Obama’s health care law requiring all Americans to buy health insurance has its roots in conservative thinking.

The concept that people should be required to buy health coverage was fleshed out more than two decades ago by a number of conservative economists, embraced by scholars at conservative research groups, including the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute , and championed, for a time, by Republicans in the Senate.
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The Council on Hemispheric Affairs: WikiLeaks Cables Show Haiti as Pawn in U.S. Foreign Policy

BY COHA Research Associate Katie Soltis– Posted on July 27, 2011

•The U.S. tried to undermine Haiti’s oil deal with Venezuela in order to protect the vested interests of U.S. oil corporations.
•Under the Obama administration, the U.S. embassy worked with major textile companies to cap the minimum wage in Haiti at 31 cents per hour.
•Election monitors from the U.S. and the international community knowingly supported elections that did not remotely follow accepted democratic standards of procedure.
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